By Matt Gore owner and founder iconphotomedia
There we were 10 years ago in The Tramshead pub just outside Saltaire (the Victorian model village near Bradford http://www.saltairevillage.info/), Guzelian photographers Matt Gore and Robin Hammond were hatching a plan to launch a photographer's agency that was to become iconphotomedia.
If memory serves me rightly (we were in the pub) some of the company names being banded around included:
Photo RepublicEventually, we agreed on iconphotomedia and have been lucky to be so well supported by a core of great clients for the last decade.
Untitled (we just got a kick out of visualising this in print as a byline)
M6 Pictures
Magenta
Our very first job - by Matt Gore for the Times Educational Supplement, who went on to become one of our biggest clients - was shot in Harrogate as Matt packed up his rental flat to move to London to start icon with Robin.
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Picture by Matt Gore/iconphotomedia
Graham Hoyle, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) published in the Times Educational Supplement
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| Picture by Matt Gore/iconphotomedia University students dress up WW2 style to entertain a local school visiting for a history lesson |
Of course, we had no idea then that icon would go on to become such an outstanding success. In the early years we applied a very simple principle - to provide eye catching broadsheet style photography for a wide range of editorial and commercial clients.
Here are some interesting numbers....
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped icon survive and thrive over the past decade; our lovely clients and suppliers, a lot of which have become good friends, and also to our friends and family who have put up with the sometimes crazy lifestyle choice that is Professional Photography.
Matt Gore
Matt Gore
